Book Review: Analytic Geometry of Space

Quasicrystals and geometry: a Book Review

Penrose tilings (Fig. 1) are beautiful. They also suggest significant new mathematics, so it is about time someone wrote a book about them which is readable (in fact, eminently readable) by mathematicians. The book, Quasicrystals and geometry, by Marjorie Senechal, has an even broader goal: to present certain developments in crystallography from the past decade. The developments were generated ...

Book Review: János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space, Volume 52, Number 9

This attractive little volume consists of two major components, together with a number of shorter sections. The major components are labeled " Introduction " and " Appendix " respectively , both designations grossly understating their content. The " Appendix " consists of Bolyai's revolutionary tract, with the subtitle " THE SCIENCE ABSOLUTE OF SPACE Independent of the Truth or Falsity of Eucli...

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